Chowan County NcArchives Deed.....Bush, John - Proprietor, Lords 1716 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Maarbjerg http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006256 November 2, 2008, 9:05 am Written: 1716 Lords Proprietor Land Grant – John Bush; 19 Cotober 1716 mpm transcription – Chowan Precinct Lords Proprietor Grant Book 111-B File 64 - North Carolina State Archives No Carolina By etc. [By ye hon’able Governr.] To ye Survr Gen’rl Or to his Deputy You are to layout unto John Bush 520 Acres of Land using due etc & observing etc. Given etc. this 9th day of Octo’r 1715. C. Eden Wm Reed N Chevin T Knight C Gale Surveyed by Vertue of the within War’t 520 Acres for John Bush. Wm Haistie(/) Survey’r Gen’rl. His Excell’y the Hon’ble Jno. Ld. Carteret Palatine etc. To all to whom etc., Know yee etc. According To a Great deed etc. Doe hereby Give and Grant unto John Bush of the Said County a Tract of Land Conteyning 520 Acres being in Chowan precint on ye West side of Barbeque Beginning at ye mouth of ye Briery branch then up Barbeque So. 25 d. Wt 100 pole then So. 100 pole to a maple on ye Swamp Side yn [thence] W 240 pole to a pine yn Bi,344 pole to a pine in the Tract of ye Holly Branch. Then No. 80 d Et. 170 pole to ye Center of 3 pines in Francis MacAndrews line then along his Line So to a live oake in the Briery Branch thence the meanders of ye Branch to ye First Station being due etc. To have and to hold or accept etc. unto him ye said John Bush his Heires & Asseynes for ever in as Large and .....etc, manner etc. Yielding & paying yearly the Fee Rent of one Shilling For every Fifty Acres to be held & provided etc. Given etc. this 19th day of Octo’br 1716. Rights purchased pursuant to Ordr. of Council. Witnesses: Cha. Eden Tho. Pollock C. Gale Fran’s Foster T Knight File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/deeds/propriet214dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb